Word: mathematicians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stephen Smale, the outspoken war critic and mathematician from the University of California at Berkeley, has received the support of six Harvard faculty members in his struggle to retain a $250,00 grant from the National Science Foundation...
This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his trip into the secret world beyond language also can be played by the ordinary reader, particularly if he is a genius...
Alexander Danilovich Alexandrov, SC.D., Soviet mathematician...
...years U.S. educators have touted the potentialities of the computer as a teaching tool. Dartmouth Mathematician John G. Kemeny contends that "the computer revolution will be just as significant in education as the industrial revolution." Now, computers have arrived on many campuses for programmed instruction, the solving of intricate problems by students, and the simulation of real-life situations in computer-controlled "games." M.I.T.'s civil engineering department is so enthusiastic over computer-aided instruction that it divides history into "B.C." and "A.C." - before and after computers...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. Old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell's own witty account of his dour and dotty early life and career never explains-but does help people understand-why he is such a conundrum...